Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 162,241 pages of information and 244,492 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

B. F. Goodrich Co

From Graces Guide
January 1905.
November 1905.
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November 1909.
February 1915.
January 1920.
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June 1923.

of Akron, Ohio

British office: Snow Hill, London (1909)

Predecessor at this address: The Goodrich Co

1909 Advertised Goodrich tyres[1]

1911 of Golden Lane, London EC[2]

1924 Public company. The British Goodrich Rubber Co was a wholly owned subsidiary of the B.F. Goodrich Company, Akron, Ohio.

1933 Acquired a controlling interest in India Rubber, Gutta Percha and Telegraph Works Co.

1934 The following year B.F. Goodrich Company sold most of its shares in the British company which at the same time changed its name to the British Tyre and Rubber Co.

See Also

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times November 12, 1909
  2. The Times, November 10, 1911